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Suse Floppy not available
Post 38323 by Sonshyne5 on Saturday 12th of July 2003 11:16:11 AM
07-12-2003
Suse Floppy not available
HI, I installed Suse 8.1 on an Emachine with a Cyrix processor equivelent to Pentium II. The dmesg reveals that the floppy was recognised, and there is an icon on the desktop for it, but when I trey to access it, it is not available.
If I access it from a terminal window, the error I get is: first that the floppy is read only, and then it tries to mount the disk read only, but gives an error message that says there were in/out errors, and returns me to the prompt. the floppy light never comes on at all. The system log reveals the following:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: last redo_fd_request at 2069607
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: status=ff
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c01d8790
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: cont=c02e2650
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: CURRENT=c1378920
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: -------------------
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: now=2070207 last interrupt=2067198 diff=3009 last called handler=00000000
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: timeout_message=redo fd request
Any ideas? The floppy works find in Windows.
Sonshyne5
Dave
If I access it from a terminal window, the error I get is: first that the floppy is read only, and then it tries to mount the disk read only, but gives an error message that says there were in/out errors, and returns me to the prompt. the floppy light never comes on at all. The system log reveals the following:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: last redo_fd_request at 2069607
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: status=ff
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c01d8790
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: cont=c02e2650
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: CURRENT=c1378920
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: -------------------
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: now=2070207 last interrupt=2067198 diff=3009 last called handler=00000000
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: timeout_message=redo fd request
Any ideas? The floppy works find in Windows.
Sonshyne5
Dave
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fdformat
FDFORMAT(8) Linux Programmer's Manual FDFORMAT(8) NAME
fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk SYNOPSIS
fdformat [-n] device DESCRIPTION
fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only): /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4) /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8) /dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12) /dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12) /dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16) /dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16) /dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20) /dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24) /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28) /dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5) /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9) /dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13) /dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13) /dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17) /dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17) /dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21) /dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25) /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29) The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for- mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters. OPTIONS
-n No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed after the format. SEE ALSO
fd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8) AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch) AVAILABILITY
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. Linux 0.99 1 February 1993 FDFORMAT(8)